Moving mails

Moving mails

[Xavier Maillard]

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Hi,

I am just planning right now to move all my mails from one location to
another as I will have a new laptop in less than a week.

I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and so I
want to separate mails from news.

Problem is I can't remember (if I ever knew ;)) what is the best
practice to achieve such a task.

In fact all I want to do is a simple 'cp' of my ~/Mail and from there,
separate news from mails. So the final setup will look like :
 ~/.email 
 ~/.news

I know which variable(s) I must change but I fear that at next startup of
Gnus, all I will have is a not-workable setup (meaning gnus going
crazy).

So except the cp stuff, what do I need to do ? Regenerate my newsrc file
? 

It is quite urgent so in case someone has an idea ...

Thanx,

zeDek
-- 
"mal ne ganz dumme frage: wo zum geier ist das config-file zu der SVGAlib
 ?? ich finds net :(" (Adam Kopacz in d.c.o.l.m)



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Re: Moving mails

[David S Goldberg]

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:14:26 +0200, Xavier Maillard
>>>>> <zedek@gnu-rox.org> said:

> I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and so I
> want to separate mails from news.

I have a .Mail and a .News.  Under the former is nnml directories.
Under the latter is score/adapt files and the agent directories.  Do
you keep all that in the same place now?

> In fact all I want to do is a simple 'cp' of my ~/Mail and from there,
> separate news from mails. So the final setup will look like :
>  ~/.email 
>  ~/.news

> I know which variable(s) I must change but I fear that at next startup of
> Gnus, all I will have is a not-workable setup (meaning gnus going
> crazy).

I would first do a straight copy and leave everything in ~/Mail.  Run
gnus, make sure all is well.  copy, don't move, the groups/files etc
from ~/.Mail that you want into ~/.email.  Backup your .newsrc* and
.emacs and .gnus files and edit to reflect the change.  Run gnus and
make sure all is well.  then do the same for .news.  If all is well,
rename ~/Mail to something else.  If all is well after than, remove
~/Mail and you're all set.

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: Moving mails

[Xavier Maillard]

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David S. Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> > > > > >  On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:14:26 +0200, Xavier Maillard
> > > > > >  <zedek@gnu-rox.org> said:
>  
> >  I also want to do some clean up on my current mail directories and
> >  so I want to separate mails from news.
>  
>  I have a .Mail and a .News.  Under the former is nnml directories.
>  Under the latter is score/adapt files and the agent directories.  Do
>  you keep all that in the same place now?
>  
> >  In fact all I want to do is a simple 'cp' of my ~/Mail and from
> >  there, separate news from mails. So the final setup will look like
> >  : ~/.email ~/.news
>  
> >  I know which variable(s) I must change but I fear that at next
> >  startup of Gnus, all I will have is a not-workable setup (meaning
> >  gnus going crazy).
>  
>  I would first do a straight copy and leave everything in ~/Mail.  Run
>  gnus, make sure all is well.  copy, don't move, the groups/files etc
>  from ~/.Mail that you want into ~/.email.  Backup your .newsrc* and
>  .emacs and .gnus files and edit to reflect the change.  Run gnus and
>  make sure all is well.  then do the same for .news.  If all is well,
>  rename ~/Mail to something else.  If all is well after than, remove
>  ~/Mail and you're all set.

This is actually how I am planning to do it but it seems to be a pain
:). If there is another quicker solution, I take it ;) (I have 4.9G of
mails :))

zeDek
-- 
"It's almost as pathetic as disgruntled Windows users writing "Open
 Letters" to Microsoft/billg asking them to improve windows.  Why do
 they do this?  It must be masochism." (Chris Mikkelson)

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